Women or Nothing / Aug 28 – Oct 13, 2013

“COEN HAS A SHARP GRASP OF CHARACTER, AND A TERRIFIC EAR FOR DARKLY FUNNY DIALOGUE.”

– The Hollywood Reporter

WOMEN OR NOTHING
by ETHAN COENdirected by DAVID CROMER

World Premiere
Linda Gross Theater, 336 W 20th St.

Now extended through October 13!

A new play about two women so desperate to have a child that one of them will even sleep with a man.

Who the man is, what he thinks is going on, what the women think about what he thinks, and what the mother of one of the women reveals about her own colorful past—it all defies belief. Why then does it all make sense?

Atlantic welcomes back legendary filmmaker/playwright Ethan Coen with the world premiere of his first full-length play. Directed by David Cromer, the acclaimed director of Our Town, Tribes and The Adding Machine.

Please note that Sunday, September 22 at 3pm will be a sign interpreted performance. To order tickets in the interpreted section, please click here.

HALLEY FEIFFER (Gretchen)Broadway: The House of Blue Leaves, directed by David Cromer (Theatre World Award). Off-Broadway: Medieval Play (Signature), Tigers Be Still (Roundabout; Drama League Nomination), Still Life (MCC), Some Americans Abroad, Election Day, subUrbia (2ST), None of the Above (Lion Theatre) and Urgent Fury (Cherry Lane). Regional: Huntington, Seattle Rep, Vineyard Playhouse, NY Stage & Film. Film:You Can Count on Me, The Squid and the Whale, Margot at the Wedding, Gentlemen Broncos, The Messenger, Twelve Thirty, Stephanie Daley, Free Samples, He’s Way More Famous Than You (which she also co-wrote) and the upcoming films Clutter and All Was Bright. TV: “Law & Order,” “Torchwood,” “Ugly Betty,” “The Good Wife,” “Royal Pains,” and HBO’s “Mildred Pierce,” “Flight of the Conchords” and “Bored to Death.” Halley is also a playwright whose play “How To Make Friends and Then Kill Them” will premiere at the Rattlestick Theatre in October (dir. Kip Fagan); she is a playwright-in-residence at Stella Adler Studio, where her play A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit… will premiere in September, (dir. Jaime Castaneda). She is a graduate of Wesleyan University.

ETHAN COEN’s (Playwright) three previous plays are Happy Hour, Almost an Evening and Offices, all of them evenings of one-acts produced by the Atlantic Theater Company and directed by Neil Pepe. Ethan Coen has written a collection of stories, Gates of Eden, and a collection of poems, The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way. With his brother, Joel, he has made fifteen movies including Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Burn after Reading, A Serious Man, and adaptations of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men and Charles Portis’s True Grit.